Commitment to Development Index (CDI)

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Commitment to Development Index 2023
September 13, 2023
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 40 of the world’s most powerful countries on policies that affect global development. In an increasingly interconnected world, decisions made by the richest countries have impacts far beyond their borders, and often disproportionately affect the world’...
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Commitment to Development Index 2023: Development Under Attack
September 13, 2023
For 20 years, the Commitment to Development Index has assessed countries' policies and the level of effort they go to in order to contribute to international development. Because development depends on much more than foreign aid, the Index looks at countries’ performance across eight different polic...
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Lagos to Mombasa: How Do We Evaluate (and Rank) Commitment to Development?
September 23, 2021
CGD’s Ian Mitchell joins Gyude to discuss the newest edition of the Commitment to Development Index, which ranks 40 of the world’s most powerful countries on policies that affect more than 5bn people in poorer nations. How do Africa’s development partners rank?
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The Commitment to Development Index 2021
September 13, 2021
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 40 of the world’s most powerful countries on policies that affect more than five billion people living in poorer nations. In this brief, we summarize the findings from the 2021 edition of the CDI.
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Gender and the CDI: How Committed Are Countries to Gender Equality in Their International Policies “Beyond Aid”?
September 30, 2020
Earlier this year, we launched the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), after commissioning a holistic two-year review to reassess which policies from the world’s major economies matter most for global development. One major area of feedback in the review discussions was that we should assess poli...
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How Robust Is the CDI to Changes in Weights?
August 03, 2020
Each year, the Center for Global Development produces the Commitment to Development Index, evaluating countries across a range of indicators that measure their impact on developing countries. This blog demonstrates that the ranking of countries in the CDI is fairly robust to the weights used. That r...
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Introducing the Commitment to Development Index 2020
June 25, 2020
The CDI measures the policy effort of countries—relative to their size—in how they support development in other countries. How did your country rank?